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France, Google Search for Common Ground on Link FeeTechNewsWorldIn a meeting with Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, French President Francois Hollande urged the search giant to reach an advertising-revenue agreement with French news publishers before 2013. If no agreement is reached, then France could ...

SEO Tech Leader #Conductor Secures $20 Million in FinancingSearch Engine JournalConductor, a leader in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) technology, today announced that it has secured $20 million in financing led by Investor Growth Capital, marking the largest investment to date in natural search technology. The company will use ...

Google's essential interactive Hurricane Sandy 2012 crisis mapZDNet... visit and share Google's live interactive Super Storm Sandy 2012 crisis map. This comes withGoogle's new Public Alerts now available on Google Search & Maps in browsers, on Google Maps for Android, and also on Google Now for Android devices ...

Government SEO is BrokenSearch Engine Watch... overlap in websites and domains. This is a pretty big initiative. One problem: there is a missing element that could hinder the effort - consideration for how users search for and find government service online – where's the search engine ...

SEO Jobs Now in Jeopardy Reports CreatingJobsforAmerica.comEquities.comA recent August post first brought to attention by the Marketer's Black Book website revealed that the Google search engine algorithm changes could harm SEO jobs. As an alternative, some business owners and website owners are turning to new training ...

Windows 8 is like a bad blind date, Google search suggests
CNET (blog)
Windows 8 is like a bad blind date, Google search suggests. Typing the phrase "Windows 8 is" at Google's search engine triggers an array of autocomplete suggestions, most of them not very complimentary. Lance Whitney. by Lance Whitney. October 29 ...

Google: Search Engine Submission Services Can Be Harmful
Search Engine Roundtable
search engine submission Most Search Engine Optimization experts find search engine submission services to be a waste of time and a scammy type of service. That being said, Google's John Mueller took it a step up by saying using these services may hurt ...

Why The Future Of Search May Look More Like Yahoo Than Google
TechCrunch
When you search, you know what you want (or something close to it) and the search engine points you in the right direction. You don't need to pre-install the results or pre-select the right app. We've seen that Google, Bing, and Yahoo! have already ...

Start! Google Invades Windows 8
SmartHouse
The Internet giant has created a Google Search app and Chrome browser for Windows 8, making it the default browser on Windows 8s homescreens, and giving Microsoft Bing the boot. "The Google Search app comes with a clean and recognizable user ...SmartHouse

No Google search app for Windows RT users
The Droid Guy
The Google Search is one of the best ways to search the world's most used search engine on mobile devices. We have widgets on Android smart phones and tablets, there is an app for iOS devices, and now on Windows 8 devices. But what about Windows ...
The Droid Guy

Why Is Megaupload (Still) Censored by Google's Piracy Filter?
TorrentFreak
MegaUpload; Print. To reduce online piracy, Google has implemented several changes to its search engine in recent years. Among other things, Google has blacklisted dozens of piracy related ...Funnily enough, Google's search algorithm bypasses the ...

Get Your Google Back, Google Tells Win 8 UsersTom's Hardware GuideDistraught Windows 8 users wanting a more Google-flavored experience are in luck, as they can easily load up Internet Explorer 10 and head over to this website to "get their Google back." It provides links to the Google Search app and the Chrome ...

Ask An SEO Expert – Responsive Web DesignBusiness 2 CommunityAsk An SEO Expert The question is, are there any SEO pros or cons to look out for with the recent commitment by Google to responsive website design? Before I answer the question, I want to go through a little bit about exactly what responsive website ...

Windows 8: 'Get Your Google Back' in itSubmitinMEFor those Google addicts who switched to 'Windows 8' which entered the market yesterday, you should have felt embarrassed noticing Bing to be your default search engine. Don't worry sinceGoogle has a way out for you from this problem. Google has ...

How To Get Your Google Back in Windows 8GizmodoMicrosoft is pushing its own Bing and Internet Explorer hard, but if that doesn't cut it for you, Googleput out this catchy little video on how to get your Google back. In a bid to make re-Googling as easy as possible for the new Windows 8 crew ...

Google Affiliate Network Now Paying Advertisers Top DollarEquities.comTop companies like Google, Yahoo and Bing have made noticeable changes to the search engine results in effort to filter out results that are not relevant or considered low quality by mathematical filters. Small business websites are among those that ...

Google Apps: 20 Million Students, Faculty, Staff Are UsersTalkinCloud (blog)But that may miss the bigger point: Google Apps puts competitive pressure on Microsoft's cash cow business. In theory, that means Microsoft can't focus all of its attention on Bing, the Google Search alternative. Also of note: A Google Apps partner ...

Google is many things -- but not an illegal monopoly | Politics and Law - CNET News: " . . . Perhaps no Internet leader faces as much scrutiny from government as Google, which has been the subject of a Federal Trade Commission antitrust probe for over a year. As this investigation comes to a close, the government is reportedly leaning toward suing Google before year's end. Naturally, its rivals are lobbying the feds to come down hard on the search giant. Yet Google's critics haven't put forward a serious legal case against the company. The world's top search firm may be many things -- some of which aren't pretty -- but an illegal monopoly, it is not. If the feds haul Google to court, they'll send Silicon Valley a powerful message: Washington is open for business and happy to meddle with the Internet economy."

Verisign Blames Google For Drop In Domain Registration & Renewal Rates: "I think there is a more serious effort by the search engine algorithm players here to sort of clean up search results and improve the quality, as Pat said, to drive some of the monetization community down further. So we discussed in the last call, the Panda and Penguin programs, for example, that Google utilized where they were targeting content farms, they were targeting keyword stuffers and now, they’re also targeting exact name matches, which typically are monetization names often. So for example, if you search for purple blue widgets, and purplebluewidgets.com happens to be a registered domain, that in the past, would’ve been likely to score very high in the search results. However, if the search engine algorithm is tweaked to go out and consider other factors, the age of the domain, how many pages are on it, how fresh is some of the contents and give it a score, essentially, on how likely it is that it’s truly quality content that the searcher might be interested in versus something that had been set up for monetization purposes, I think the search engine algorithms are essentially targeting that kind of traffic to get it out."

Understanding Google's Algorithm UpdatesPractical EcommerceThe term "webspam" refers to low-quality sites that use manipulative search engine optimizationstrategies to win rankings and traffic. Google's war on webspam has reached an all-time high, with the search ... Understanding these algorithm updates and ...

Google Search App for Windows 8Solar Panels NewsThe Search App by Google can be accessed in the Windows Store for free and is offered as an alternative to the default search engine in Internet Explorer on Windows 8, Bing. The Search App for Windows 8 is not just a search app but it also serves a ...

Dead or Alive: Is SEO vs. PPC Really a Debate?Business 2 CommunityIt's the age-old debate of whether or not businesses should invest the majority of their online marketing budget toward search engine optimization, pay per click or both. Small businesses understand the fundamental challenges that go hand in hand with ...

Deconstructing The Google EMD UpdateSearch Engine LandIt is probably worth noting, Zoltán Gyöngyi is a research scientist at Google who went to Stanford and studied with Professor Hector Garcia-Molina, who was the principal investigator for the Stanford Digital Library Project, in which the Google search ...Search Engine Land

Reach, relevance and ROI: Guiding on the InternetNew Zealand HeraldTheir number one port of call is the Google search page. And businesses looking for new leads and customers should take notice of this trend. A successful search engine marketing (SEM) campaign can attract new customers in their droves and raise a ...New Zealand Herald

Do I need to hire an SEO company to boost my website's ranking?Retail WeekA It's an enduring myth that search engine optimisation (SEO) is a dark art, or incomprehensible to non-specialists. Google produces a comprehensive SEO starter guide, for example – a great place to start for retailers looking for insight into how it ...

Searching for A Real Antitrust Problem
Wall Street Pit
The FTC is believed to be in the process of preparing an antitrust complaint against Google, on the grounds that it uses its dominance in the search engine market to promote its other services by altering its algorithms to boost their prominence in its ...Looking at who filed the complaints in these two cases yields a valuable lesson. In the case of the NCAA, the complaints came from the student athletes, the ones who have been deprived of choice. In the case of Google, the complaints came from competitors. These companies’ real problem, it seems, is not that customers do not have choices, but rather that customers aren’t choosing them. If Google’s competitors are right, and Google really is altering search results for its own advantage, users will soon defect on their own. The FTC would do a greater public service by protecting the interests of student athletes who have nowhere else to go.

5 Ways to Beat Your Competitors at SEO
Entrepreneur
As anyone who's ever struggled to achieve and maintain high search results rankings can attest to, search engine optimization (SEO) is a constant race to stay one move ahead of your competitors. To win that race, you need to continually improve your ...Entrepreneur

Google Rolls Out Top Heavy 2 Update
Equities.com
Google's head of spam Matt Cutts via his twitter account announced the Top Heavy 2 update. The Top Heavy 2 update focuses on removing sites from the search engine, which have too much advertising or imagery above the fold. Users of Google had ...

SEO industry gets in a spin over online content marketing
Internet Marketing News
In light of Google's Panda and Penguin updates, designed to target content and link spam, in favour of rewarding fresh, unique content, quality content represents one of the few SEO strategies to produce consistently good results. Despite content being ...

The Changing Economics of Google AdWords (Infographic)
Business 2 Community
Offsetting those declines are an impressive growth of ad impressions and clicks (clicks were up +21.6% for Google Search, +29.1% for Google Display Network), which more than made up for lost revenues. It's hard to say for certain ... It also opens up ...

In Web Search, Be Efficient in the Terms You Use
New York Times
“We really try to make Bing a place where you can go to get stuff done in the real world,” said Stefan Weitz, senior director of Bing, Microsoft's search engine and chief rival to Google. “People expect search now to actually do a better job connecting ...New York Times

How free tools can turn you into a web diviner
Sydney Morning Herald
... site and your competitors'. Setting aside the clunky industry standards – GoogleKeywords and Google Analytics – here are five alternative no-cost tools that can help you become an SEO seer as dollars move from offline to online in a shift that ...Sydney Morning Herald

Google launches dedicated Windows 8 Search appTechRadar UKGoogle has released a dedicated Search application for Windows 8 prior to the global launch of the operating system Oct. 26. The free touch-friendly app, available to download from the Windows Store, will give Windows 8 users an alternative to the ...

10 Post-Panda/Penguin Era Link Acquisition StrategiesSearch Engine JournalThen, in April of 2012, the Penguin update hit 3 percent of the search results, knocking out sites with link profiles that looked suspicious. In the wake of the Panda and Penguin updates, I have dug into the data and found some of the most common ...

Google releases Google Search for Windows 8 appTweakTownGoogle Search for Windows 8 is available right now in the Windows Store for free as an alternative to Microsoft-owned Bing, the default search engine in Internet Explorer on Windows 8. Google Search for Windows 8 isn't just a search app either, it is a ...TweakTown

How Website Load Times Affect Google RankingsBusiness 2 CommunityAs the most popular search engine in the world, Google has a lot of influence over how companies run their websites. You've probably heard something about Google's Panda and Penguin search ranking algorithms and how to please them, but how does ...

By the numbers: The black and white of Google's PenguinZDNetAs if search engine algorithms wouldn't spot such a thing and consider it a phoney way to raise your profile. Yet, many big companies follow a similar approach. Let's take Telstra as an example. A Google search for "link:http://telstra.com" shows that ...

How social signals influence SEO: 5 things you need to knowEconsultancy (blog)2012 has been a time of great transition in SEO. With Google's Penguin update in May, we saw a concerted move away from it being duped by black hat techniques, and a move towards beginning to incorporate social signals into its algorithm. The water's ...

Google's Death Spiral In ChinaSeeking AlphaThose who said earlier this month that Google will go up further have just overlooked the fact that the exit of its search engine from China early in 2010 has already crippled its long-term share performance and will hurt its revenue growth in a few ...

Google releases search app for Windows 8CNETOn Windows today, people reach Google's search service with a browser. But when Windows 8 arrives this week, the company evidently hopes people will use a dedicated search app, ... Microsoft may not be happy to see people using Google over its own Bing ...

Big Patent Suit Against Google Over Quality Score Goes To TrialWebProNewsThe search engine system also employs a collaborative/content-based filter to make continuing searches for information entities which match existing wire queries and are ranked and stored over time in user-accessible, system wires corresponding to the ...

Here's What The Google Windows 8 App Looks LikeWebProNewsSearch Charm – By installing the Google Search app, you can easily access Google from the Search Charm. Instant Previews mode – Browse search results without having to visit each page. View Your Searches – Swipe from the top to see the sites you ...

Google threatens to ban French newspapersZee NewsLondon: Web giant Google has threatened to ban French newspapers from its search engine, if the country passes a law that will make it pay for the right to use the paper's news articles online. The new law, dubbed the ''Google law,'' has been ...Zee News

Is Ask.com Continuing To Play The Google ... - Search Engine LandBy Pamela ParkerWe recently received an email from a reader who'd made an inquiry with Google AdWords support. Why, this reader had asked, is Ask.com allowed to buy AdWords and rank for certain surprising terms, when its landing page features mostly ...Search Engine Land: News & Info...

Google, Penalties & the Disavow Links Tool: The Big Game TheorySearch Engine WatchI'm here to argue that the opposite could actually be true and that those using it are being gamed byGoogle. Google has never had an issue with the quality of search engine results pages (SERPs) per se. Yes, there were areas that they weren't ...

New Google Search Appliance releasedITWorld CanadaIn recent years, Google has been developing more and more efficient search algorithms, and is conducting research on using natural language in queries. But the barrier to developing a better search engine is often related to mushrooming amount of data ...ITWorld Canada

24 SEO Browser ExtensionsPractical EcommerceThere are many search engine optimization plugins available for a variety of browsers, putting freeSEO tools right at your fingertips. Here is a list of ... Compare link metrics for Google, Yahoo! andBing with search-engine-results-page overlay ...

Government shouldn't regulate Google searchesThe Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and HeadlinesHow can people who use Google's search engine be harmed if they are not paying for the service? Search is a free good. If the searcher is dissatisfied, try a different search engine — with a single click. Government investigators must think clicking ...The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines

Experts predict Google Search to Expire, Mobile Apps to OutpaceThe Droid GuyMoments after its third-quarter earnings report was inadvertently published earlier than scheduled on Thursday, various speculations about Google's future expiration as the world's lead Internet search engine quickly began to blowout. The early release ...The Droid Guy

Diageo eyes Google searches in bid to corner cocktail marketThe AustralianIf the site generates enough traffic, the search-engine marketing spend, which will be live for at least six months, will decrease as Google's search algorithm begins to prioritise the website in its organic, or unpaid, search rankings. "It's by far ...

3 Steps to Protecting Your Website's Search RankingsTerra.comYou've worked hard to follow search engine optimization (SEO) best practices to earn high rankings for your website in the search engine results pages (SERPs). After weeks or ... So far, the specific criteria to qualify are known only by Google. You ...

Webmasters Reeling over Latest Google Algorithm UpdatesEquities.comGoogle recently released the 20th version of the Panda update along with their Exact Match Domain (EMD) update. However, they did not mention the new Panda update when they announced the EMD update. This caused confusion among webmasters ...

10 things Google won't tell youMarketWatchGoogle, the giant search-engine company, has looked unusually vulnerable lately: It rattled financial markets on Thursday when it announced a 20% drop in third-quarter profits — and it accidentally released the results prematurely, to boot. Yet ...MarketWatch

Google threatens to drop French media links over fees planThe GuardianFor example, if a Google search about the French president, François Hollande, returned a list of articles by the newspapers Le Figaro or Les Echos, Google would have to pay a commission fee for displaying those links. Google executives met government ...

Is Your SEO Agency Any Good?Search Engine WatchSEO may be a little different in that there's no dedicated industry regulatory body or code of conduct as such; but if your SEO agency is using poor quality tactics that contravene a search engines' guidelines, then your business presence in the search ...

Why Does Marissa Mayer Consider Siri The Perfect Search Engine?ForbesWhile Yahoo! was once a major player in search – even as late as 3 years ago – they essentially outsourced their search know-how to Microsoft (MSFT) Bing in a deal that former CEO Carol Bartz signed with Steve Ballmer 3 years ago. The deal hasn't ...

5 Basic SEO Tips For BeginnersBusiness 2 CommunityVisitors can come from word of mouth like when your friend tells his other friends to visit your site, others from article directories or in most cases from search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo.SEO or search engine optimization is the most ...

Facebook search engine: good or bad idea?VatorNewsIn September, Mark Zuckergberg gave his first interview since Facebook's IPO. He talked about a lot of different topics, from Facebook's mobile strategy, to his biggest mistake. There was one thing he spoke about, though, that I was sure would gain ...

Google Now Reports “Practically 100%” Of Manual ActionsSearch Engine LandWondering if some human at Google has reviewed your web site and decided it deserves to be penalized in Google's search results? Google's now reporting such cases nearly 100% of the time. “We've actually started to send messages for pretty much every ...Search Engine Land

Google's Search for a Second ActYahoo! Finance (blog)At it's core Google is a search engine ad company, "everything else is just an afterthought." Bullish Catalyst: YouTube. The most promising of the assorted under-the-headline business lines at Google is YouTube. Acquired in 2006 for about $1.8billion, ...

10 Reasons SEO Is Harder for Small BusinessesBusiness 2 CommunitySEO is the same way. If you can devote more money to your search engine optimization efforts, you'll see better returns. Bigger companies have bigger budgets they can allocate towards hiring more employees, bringing in top-notch consultants, investing ...

NKF Awarded SEO Grant from the Conductor FoundationRenal Business TodayNEW YORK—The Conductor Foundation, an initiative supported by enterprise SEO technology leader, Conductor, Inc., to increase the online visibility of nonprofit organizations through training workshops and grants, announced that the National Kidney ...

Leveraging The Brand-Building Powers Of SEOMediaPost CommunicationsWhen marketers consider branding, search engine optimization typically doesn't come to mind.SEO has long been used as a vehicle for driving highly qualified visitors to brands' Web sites. ButSEO is no longer just about driving traffic; it's about ...

Five Go-To SEO Tools You Should Use ImmediatelyNBC Chicago (blog)Search-engine optimization is a discipline practiced by people halfway between creative marketing roles and technical developer roles. SEO folks need to understand and be able to communicate with both sides of an organization. These five SEO tools are ...

Qihoo Search: Dead on Arrival?Search Engine WatchLaunched August 16, Qihoo Search was the latest search engine to hit China and became one of the largest traffic sources in only a matter of days but where do they sit now as the dust settled? Just a little background for you, Qihoo 360 Technology Co ...

HTML5 and SEO | Webdesigner DepotBy Ben MossSince the advent of the first web search engines, designers and developers have struggled with issues of how to increase their placement on a search engine results page. With the major search engines (Google, Bing, etc.) unwilling to reveal ...Webdesigner Depot

Blekko Releases New Premium SEO Tools | Search Engine JournalBy Michelle Stinson RossUnlike other search engine analytic tools which only show general data on inbound links, our premium SEO tools provide full data reports that can be used to compare SEO stats between sites and direct SEO access from Blekko search result ...Search Engine Journal

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: A new tool to disavow linksBy Gary IllyesMuch like with rel=”canonical”, this is a strong suggestion rather than a directive—Google reserves the right to trust our own judgment for corner cases, for example—but we will typically use that indication from you when we assess links. Q: How soon after I upload a file will the links be ignored?..... It has happened to me (on a much smaller scale) where I was just starting out as an amazonaffiliate and was getting 150 hits/day with 3-6 sales/day. Then some bright spark hit my site with ...Official Google Webmaster Central Blog

Google's Search Lead Can Become Apple's Advantage In 5 YearsSeeking AlphaIt is important to note that Siri at this time is not a fully fledged search engine. As a matter of a fact Siri can be instructed to use Google, Bing or Yahoo in retrieving its results. Furthermore, Google has also developed its own voice powered ...

SEO Positive Reviews The Release of Disavow Link Tool.Equities.comSEO Positive was established in 2007 in Chelmsford, Essex with the aim of bringing effective yet affordable online marketing services to companies from all industries and backgrounds. The company offers a huge range of services including search engine ...

Stop Selling SEO ShortSearch Engine JournalGoogle's changes over recent years, such as Caffeine and Google Panda updates, are mostly concerned with content and relevancy issues. Google's SSL changes are ...Yahoo and Bing have also moved away from “technical SEO” in favor of content marketing ...Search Engine Journal

Should You Accept Guest Posts?Search Engine JournalIt's no secret in the SEO world that Google's recent Panda and Penguin algorithm updates have killed off a number of backlink building techniques that were effective in the past. And with the elimination of these low-value tactics, SEOs have turned to ...

3 SEO Expert Blogs You Should Be Reading Right NowBusiness 2 CommunityFor too many marketers, SEO is something that other people do — it's either outsourced or perhaps relegated to an in-house specialist. That's unfortunate because SEO should really inform your overall marketing strategy in addition to vice versa. The ...

The Democrats Prank Romney With Clever Search Engine FunBy Fruzsina EördöghManipulating key terms in Google search to display a message isn't new by any means - George Bush and the words "miserable failure" is one of the earliest, most successful examples of "Google bombing." And Rick Santorum's "Google ...ReadWriteWeb

Google's Link Disavow Tool And Negative SEO | WebProNewsBy Chris CrumNegative SEO also came up during the PubCon session in which Google's Matt Cutts revealed the tool. Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Roundtable has a liveblog from that. Here is his account of what Cutts had to say about the subject: ...Top News - WebProNews